General Sessions for Monday and Tuesday were heavily scripted with marketing jargon and lack of substance. VMware knows that their audience is highly educated and technical, so why insult them with marketing fluff?

The VMworld Party was a shadow of last year’s – better to cancel it than put everyone through that sham again.

Solutions Exchange – Note to Vendors – Please provide technical experts at your booths so that we can talk to someone who actually knows your product. Nutanix did a great job of this. We do not care what they look like, just how knowledgeable they are.

Overall VMworld 2014 US was a great success, because it allowed 22,000 people who are passionate about technology to converge in a single place and participate in the vCommunity: talking, exchanging ideas, meeting for the first time – it was great!